Event styles

Vent your views

Talk your heads off, voice your views and open your mind to different opinions as we serve up a slice of the most challenging topics in contemporary science.

Our dialogue events confront the biggest topics in science head-on. Whether you’re new to a subject or a well-versed authority, dialogue events are your chance to have your say on issues that matter with experts and with each other.

Artistic licence

Sit back and relax with a drink as we showcase the biggest and best that science-related performance has to offer. Prepare to be challenged, entertained, but most of all to connect with contemporary science in unexpected ways.

Performances in the Science Museum’s Dana Centre marry science with theatre, comedy and live art, stirring your emotions, messing with your mind or simply making you smile.

Test Lab

See your world differently with our interactive events. Immerse yourself in playful experiences, get hands-on with the latest technology or talk to experts about their newest prototypes. These events showcase the very latest science and promise to satisfy event the most inquisitive minds.

Face to face

Explore new ideas, hear different opinions and come face to face with leading thinkers as they unpick the most pressing topics in science.

Get clued up at one of the Dana centre’s debates. We invite the biggest names to talk about their most exciting ideas, and cordially invite your attendance.